Speak but little and well if you would be esteemed a man of merit.
—Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Speech
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning-flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning. Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
—Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Language, Words
None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, he only can fill it.
—Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Religion
Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness.
—Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Prayer
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
—Richard Chenevix Trench
Topics: Service, Sharing
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